What do you think? Is The fashion industry recruitment exempt from Employment discrimination laws?

We need your support please, even if you feel you cannot help or do not wish to support the campaign please forward to all of your family & friends – by working together we can make a difference! London is recognised as one of the most diverse cities in the world but this is not reflected in the models used during the London Fashion Week’s and many of the other Fashion Weeks across the world. As part of the Black BUT Invisible campaign we are saying enough is enough, it is not good enough to take the money that we spend on consumer goods but then refuse to put a fair proportion of models of colour on the catwalk. They will not even be a little bit fake and let us audition and then say no. British Fashion Council, organisers of London Fashion Week are blatantly open about the "industry Apartheid" they are practising. We have proven (Italian Vogue - all black issue) that when we come together we can force change and we are asking for your support again to make this a successful campaign. PS ARE YOU AWARE THAT BLACK PUBLICATIONS CANNOT GET PRESS ACCREDIATTION TO ATTEND LONDON FASHION WEEK BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ABC RATED? THIS NOT JUST ABOUT MODELS, this is about discrimination generally and if we break down the visual barriers that people can blatantly see on catwalks and in magazines then other barriers will also eventually be broken down. A major model agent has laid bare the racial discrimination the fashion industry is riddled with. Premier Model Management's Carole White admitted that finding work for black clients was significantly harder than for the white models, as magazines and designers were reluctant to employ them. Models from ethnic backgrounds 'have to be perfect because we can't have a lot of diversity with black models.' At style.com, three shows chosen at random featured black models in eight out of 136 photographs taken during the week. The March issue of Vogue – with more than 400 pages of editorial and advertising – has 14 shots with black or Asian women – two of them featuring Naomi Campbell. Is this an issue industry insiders should work to tackle, or is it just a case of giving people what they want? PRESIDENT (elect) OBAMA HAS PROVEN THAT, IF YOU BELIEVE YOU CAN ACHIEVE, BUT FIRST YOU MUST INDUCE, CONVINCE, GATHER SUPPORT AND TAKE ACTION FOR YOUR GOALS TO BE REALISED – SO WE ARE ASKING FOR YOU TO PASS ON THIS EMAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND THEN ASK THEM TO PASS IT ON TO EVERYONE THEY KNOW. WE NEED THE WORLDS SUPPORT TO ENSURE THAT WE ACHIEVE CHANGE. Regards Mahogany Model Management

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